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itness

noun

Etymology

From it + -ness.

  1. derived from *ḱe✻ — “here; here”
  2. inherited from *hit✻ — “this, this one”
  3. inherited from *hit✻
  4. inherited from hit — “it”
  5. inherited from it
  6. suffixed as itness — “it + ness”

Definitions

  1. Existence as a particular (type of) thing with particular qualities.

    • You see, Uncle, it isn't anything to do with anything, being in love with a person—no matter how soppy it may sound to you in your wisdom. It's just a sort of Itness to do with one another and it won't work under any form of substitution.
    • Theatricality is foregrounded in the simple moment of pointing to an absence, as in the mask that points to itself as it advances. In this moment the itness of the I shows itself as what it is not in the act of self-reference.
    • This script declares: the universe is so right as to need no justification, existence is no longer a problem because of the 'itness' of everything, the whole world had become your own body […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for itness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA